Up to this point, I have written this year’s posts about knowing your grading periods sooner than last year’s. I wanted to provide you with various times during the year to check your progress with your study skills as well as your grades, as well as to highlight more examples of times when checking your …
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When most of us see or hear the word “puzzle,” the first, and perhaps only, type of puzzle that comes to mind is a jigsaw puzzle. Since it was invented over two hundred years ago and was the only type of puzzle most people were familiar with, it rightly became then, and still is now, …
In my last post, I wrote about theory and practice in education, and how an overreliance on theory can sometimes lead to students missing out on the practical advice they also need, while an overreliance on practice can sometimes lead to students missing out on the benefits new theories can offer. Even though some teachers …
In education, as in many other fields, both theory and practice play an important role. As any of you who have read my blog regularly know, I definitely lean more toward the practice side of things, and one of the main goals of my website is to offer practical solutions to educational challenges. One of …
In my recent posts about the Olympics, I wrote about how I believe that the quality of resilience is the most important one to possess, not just for the Olympians, but for you as well. Even if you did not watch the Games, or were much more interested in the competition than in the athletes …
A little over a year ago, I wrote a post I called “The Longest Winter,” about how the challenge of keeping yourself motivated during the long, cold winter months was made extra difficult due to the disruptions of pandemic life. I focused on how the uncertainty with which you had been living might have made …
